Hi Richie,
I was at a Traditional Song Forum meeting in Newcastle today and Vic Gammon, retired professor of the Newcastle University Folk Degree, declared an interest in completing a study on Barbara Allen. I told him about your work

'We can assume by Pepys, however, that Mrs. Knipp's Scotch version "Barbary Allen" could be part of this group.' Richie, if you don't believe what we've told you about the meaning of 'Scotch' to Londoners in earlier centuries, I'll try to find the references. it might have come from Chappell.